Originally Posted by MILES58
Originally Posted by EthanEdwards
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
The masks are for feel good only. They don't help a bit with the virus. It goes right through them.
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The size of what the masks will filter is much larger than the size of a virus. Aside from that though is the fact that the mask does not produce a positive seal like a gas mask so they will leak around the masks and through the gaps in the seal. Airborne virus rides on moisture droplets and WILL contact your eyes just like pollen and it will infect you as it passes down the nasal lacrimal duct.

Unless an effective vaccine is found and you get vaccinated, the chances that you get covid 29 will approach 100% probably within 5 years. Quarantine is at this point in time no longer a viable option. The virus is as yet undetected in the general population of the United States. But, it is on at least three continents that we are certain of and in over 30 nations. That, by definition, is out of control and in all but declaration by WHO a global pandemic. That declaration will come this week. By the end of the week thu number of countris without infections will be less than the number with and screening/quarantine will be all but done. This when all we can say about it's mortality rate is that it is probably somewhere between 1 and 3 per cent.

This virus is already well on it's way to killing more people than Ebola has in the almost 50 years we have known of it. By the end of 202 Covid 19 will have killed more people globally than Ebola in West Africa did. At least absent a vaccine that will be the scorecard.


I don't agree. once warmer temps start to happen, the cold and flu seasons evaporate. People just don't get them during that time of the year. I think I have only caught a cold in the summer like twice over a 25 year span. I see that happening as we get closer to spring. Also its been said the actual illness isn't very severe, its the potential for pnumonia after the fact that is the problem. This to me says where healthcare sucks in an area or country your risk of dying will go up. out of 600 people that have tested to have the virus off that cruise ship only 2 elderly people died. I will say its alarming that 600 our of 3700 ended up catching the virus though.